Joseph Lorenz, Markus Schirmer und Christopher Hinterhuber - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Two of Franz Schubert's most important four-hand piano works are the two divertissements on Hungarian and French motifs. Not only will they both sound the same evening, but they will even be combined with French and Hungarian literature. Paul Valéry's dialogue "L'Âme et la Danse" appeared in 1923 and presents dance as a symbol of the creative process and the dancer as the embodiment of the idea. Both then stand for the concept of the pure spirit and its metamorphoses - a delightful juxtaposition to the dotted light and heavy rhythms of Schubert in the "French style". Nobel laureate Imre Kertész's tale of "Earthlings and Pilgrims" is an exciting fratricidal story by Kain and Abel, which perfectly fits Schubert's epic and fateful D 818.

Program:

Paul Valéry: The Soul and the Dance (translated from French by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Imre Kertész: earthlings and pilgrims, narrative

Franz Schubert: Divertissement sur des motives originaux français, D 823
Franz Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise, D 818

Subject to change.